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Steven Austerer, Yalla Vote Field Organizer in Massachusetts: Steven graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in Spanish, and obtained his Master of Science in Management from Hult International Business School. Following graduation, he spent the better part of the next decade working with public and private...

By Mollie Todd It has been more than six months since President Donald Trump announced that the DACA program would end on March 5. Although he promised to sign a bipartisan DACA solution, when one was offered he rejected it. To protect the rights of DACA recipients, California, Maine, Maryland,...

By Mollie Todd The Arab American Institute has signed on to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, in conjunction with Muslim Advocates and dozens of affiliated organizations, to obtain records pertaining to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) so-called “Extreme Vetting Initiative.” Currently ICE searches for information on visa...

Contact: jsalan@aaiusa.org; 202-429-9210 AAI Welcomes DOJ Indictment for Hate Crime Against Man Who Repeatedly Threatened Organization For Immediate Release: February 22, 2018 (Washington) On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice charged a Virginia man with four counts of threatening Arab American Institute (AAI) staff because of their Arab ancestry and three counts...

By Laura Neumayer Social media, paired with discriminatory surveillance, has in recent years compromised a seemingly personal platform for thousands of Americans and immigrants. Last year, the Immigration & Customs Enforcement, or ICE, branch of the Department of Homeland Security piloted a new program for the monitoring of social media...

Today the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in IRAP v. Trump, another case regarding the President’s Proclamation from last fall, popularly termed Muslim Ban 3.0. The court has previous ruled against iterations of the Muslim Ban, and here ruled 9-4 against the Administration, holding that the Muslim...